commuting is D U M B.
the internet exists motherfucker. THE. INTERNET. EXISTS.
every single cubicle office job is dumb, and exists because of bourgeois sadism of depriving us of all of our free time.
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Sure, sure ... but it's important to remember that not all jobs are office jobs.
For your delivery drivers, retail shelf-stockers, sanitation workers, farmers, nurses, construction workers, etc, etc, etc ... remote work doesn't really work for them. Remote work is fine for IT jobs, clerical jobs, and administrative jobs, but a lot of jobs can't be done that way, which means a lot of people still need to commute.
For sure, but if I don’t have to, that frees up the road for the people who actually need it.
i drive delivery whenever i need to, and i'd appreciate less useless traffic on the streets and the extra money flowing, which sometimes means more and easier work.
i'm sure other commuters would appreciate less congested roads and less wasted time too.
True, true. Less commuting would be a benefit for just about everybody (except wealthy commercial real estate landlords).
Just wanted to point out that saying everyone should stop commuting is pretty hyperbolic.
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My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees' home offices.
A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.
Then you don't have an office job, but a lab job that also involves sitting in an office. Almost every job that is 100% sitting in an office can be done remote.
The reality is that its unnecessary for the absolute majority but there are some exceptions, which people wont list to make their statement absolutely correct. It would be exhausting to do that just to satisfy some people who need that.
I dont mind blanket statements when its something to applies to almost everyone.
When you can only commute with a car, yeah it's dumb. However, I have a daily commute of 1 hour with my bicycle and it's a great way to get some exercise. In this regard it's forcing me to move my body, which I otherwise probably wouldn't in my free time. Gym of life.
What kind of dumb argument is that? If you worked from home you could still take a morning and afternoon bike ride. And you could actually go some place new or run an errand.
Everyone works in different ways. You may not believe it, because it is not your thing but some really want to separate their work location from their free time location and there are also good reasons for doing so. I am not saying everyone has to want that but many do and there is nothing wrong with that. The other thing is that real, face to face communication is simply not the same as an online call, especially low key interactions during lunch or coffee break. Depends on your job of course and they way of working but there is value in it.
If someone can combine the commute with work out, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why impose your preferences on that other person?
Why impose your preferences on that other person?
The return-to-office folks are not giving us the option of returning to work if we want. They're forcing us even when it's completely unnecessary. So yeah, you should have the option to bike to work when and if you want but the rest of us should have the option to opt out when it's possible to work from home. That's 100% not happening.
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As I said, I personally wouldn't do that in my free time, especially not every single day.. because I'm too lazy haha
Remove pedestrians, biking and transit because they take up car space. Now everyone drives and you're 45 minutes stuck in traffic.
As long as I'm in my 18 wheeler pick up truck that takes up 2 lanes and consumes more gallons of gas than a whole pump in the middle east can produce in a day every week, I'm happy!
(Post brought to you by the american brainwashed mind)
CANYONERRROOOOOO
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I'm zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I'm just straight up zoned out. I don't have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
Bus drivers are magicians, I always think "where is he even going to go there's not even close to enough space" and they just magic the bus smaller to fit while I'm panicking the whole time thinking we're about to crash.
Turns out, spending 40 hours a week driving makes you pretty good at driving.
Also spending most time driving down the exact same route in mostly the exact same traffic conditions
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing and admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level of dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I'm more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
I would a million time prefer walking 16 minutes than sitting in traffic for 6.
Walkable doesn't mean only walking
Walkable doesn't mean only walking
Just like portable software doesn't mean that the only thing you do with software is porting it.
To be fair, I think depending on your mood and weather it can in fact be nicer to be sitting in a climate controlled box with a nice chair and a stereo system
Even better would be sitting in a climate-controlled box, with a nice chair, and a good stereo system... at home, relaxing after a nice walk.
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Around here, if someone complains about a two hour freeway commute, it's "man up, it's just part of life!"
"Man up" is just a universal thought terminating cliche whenever a person that happens to present masculine complains about anything.
And if we're going to go that route, I prefer "embrace the suck" as a more fun and helpful thought terminating cliche.
It's also not needlessly gendered, so that's another point in favour!
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At one point I had a 55min commute using transit but would usually get hard by weather as 2 of my stops didn't have cover. Also the occasional meth/fent heads, missed connections, overcrowding...
Or sit in my car on a 45min commute.
Eventually I met it halfway by joining a vanpool but that shit still cost more than mass transit and got expensive when my employer cut transit vouchers.
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I have to commute by car to commute by bus so I’ve started just commuting by car
Hiking in the arctic pulling a sled with all your gubbins.. or having 12-16 fluffy doggos pull you and the sled for the love of the game?
my goodness, im having flashbacks of my pre covid office days spending 6 hrs of commute time just to get on and off to work
every....fucking...day.
6 hours? At that point, I'd drive a camper to work and just sleep in the parking lot.
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Locking to prevent more reports about absolutely braindead takes. Some of y'all clearly aren't adults
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